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You can take vitamin supplements now if you want.

However, we will give the 1M dose 2 more weeks as we are seeing benefits on the emotional plane.

Update me at that time.

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
Hello Dr.Sameer,

I am having quite a time with joint pain, especially when it is cold and damp. Movement, like walking aggravates it and sometimes the left knee especially feels like a nail is going through it right in the middle. I do not take pain killer at all but I am tempted to apply things like arnica oil or something of the sort for the pain.

I also have heartburn quite a bit, mostly from anything starchy, about 2 hours after eating, it is relieved by small sips of water.
Another symptom that I have is I feel like there is a plug in my throat all the time. I swallow to clear it but it does not go away.

I actually went to have a physical and the doctor sent me for blood work for thyroid, lipid and sugar readings but I have not been called in yet to discuss the results.

Emotionally I am pretty well ok, I do feel impatient with my kids sometimes, or I should say maybe even touchy, but I do not feel all that anger that I had months ago. I feel that things have improved quite a bit.
I have started exercising with the goal to strengthen my muscles so as to help my health and my joints.

thank you,
 
Marika last decade
What are the symptoms which started since menopause ?
 
sameervermani last decade
Hello Dr. Sameer,

I wrote about some of my symptoms quite a while ago but I have not gotten an answer and so I am writing again.(I think sometimes the message might not be sent or recorded in the thread.)

My major symptoms are: joint pain and stiffness, heartburn and a strange thing which has happened before but now I am experiencing it again: The muscles in my hands sometimes feel weak when I hold something, like washing the dishes and I have to hold a glass or a plate, it feels like I might drop it, like a paralysis of a sort, but not exactly. It is not too bad yet, but I would not want it to progress any more, I need my hands.

Joing pain: If I am walking for a little bit(I do not walk much) it hurts quite a lot, the knees feel sometimes like there is a nail going through them in the front,
the hips feel sore and stiff when I walk or even sit. Any position that I hold for a length of time I feel stiffness and I have to loosen up before I am able to walk.
I had some x-rays done but have not been called to discuss the results yet. they are recommending both hips to be replaced but to be honest I am not keen on it because I have had so much surgery already, plus I cannot replace both hips and knees.

I am doing my part by trying to lose weight and I have started exercising (stretching, chi kung) so as to strengthen the muscles and ligaments.

Heartburn: It happens about 2 hours after eating and is releived by small sips of water.

I feel a lump on my throat, almost a permanent glob of mucus that does not go away when I try to swallow it, so I have to clear my throat so very often, it is hard to speak for a long length of time.

Emotionally: I feel quite good, sometimes I am impatient or maybe I feel I do not want to be disturbed when I am doing something (I guess that is a little irritability) but most of all I get easily panicked in an instant when I have to do a lot of things in a short while so I talk myself into a state of calm or I breathe deeply and slowly.
I also feel that I may be not strong enough to deal with the teenage years (next 4-5) not that my kids are bad, just that it may require more patience and consideration on my part than I am able to give.
I am a single parent and I often feel overwhelmed with the managerial role a parent needs to have. (Talking tires me out and giving instructions also tires me out sometimes.)


Thank you sincerely,
 
Marika last decade
Hello Dr. Sameer,

I wrote about some of my symptoms quite a while ago but I have not gotten an answer and so I am writing again.(I think sometimes the message might not be sent or recorded in the thread.)

My major symptoms are: joint pain and stiffness, heartburn and a strange thing which has happened before but now I am experiencing it again: The muscles in my hands sometimes feel weak when I hold something, like washing the dishes and I have to hold a glass or a plate, it feels like I might drop it, like a paralysis of a sort, but not exactly. It is not too bad yet, but I would not want it to progress any more, I need my hands.

Joing pain: If I am walking for a little bit(I do not walk much) it hurts quite a lot, the knees feel sometimes like there is a nail going through them in the front,
the hips feel sore and stiff when I walk or even sit. Any position that I hold for a length of time I feel stiffness and I have to loosen up before I am able to walk.
I had some x-rays done but have not been called to discuss the results yet. they are recommending both hips to be replaced but to be honest I am not keen on it because I have had so much surgery already, plus I cannot replace both hips and knees.

I am doing my part by trying to lose weight and I have started exercising (stretching, chi kung) so as to strengthen the muscles and ligaments.

Heartburn: It happens about 2 hours after eating and is releived by small sips of water.

I feel a lump on my throat, almost a permanent glob of mucus that does not go away when I try to swallow it, so I have to clear my throat so very often, it is hard to speak for a long length of time.

Emotionally: I feel quite good, sometimes I am impatient or maybe I feel I do not want to be disturbed when I am doing something (I guess that is a little irritability) but most of all I get easily panicked in an instant when I have to do a lot of things in a short while so I talk myself into a state of calm or I breathe deeply and slowly.
I also feel that I may be not strong enough to deal with the teenage years (next 4-5) not that my kids are bad, just that it may require more patience and consideration on my part than I am able to give.
I am a single parent and I often feel overwhelmed with the managerial role a parent needs to have. (Talking tires me out and giving instructions also tires me out sometimes.)


Thank you sincerely,
 
Marika last decade
Hello Dr. Sameer,

I wrote about some of my symptoms quite a while ago but I have not gotten an answer and so I am writing again.(I think sometimes the message might not be sent or recorded in the thread.)

My major symptoms are: joint pain and stiffness, heartburn and a strange thing which has happened before but now I am experiencing it again: The muscles in my hands sometimes feel weak when I hold something, like washing the dishes and I have to hold a glass or a plate, it feels like I might drop it, like a paralysis of a sort, but not exactly. It is not too bad yet, but I would not want it to progress any more, I need my hands.

Joing pain: If I am walking for a little bit(I do not walk much) it hurts quite a lot, the knees feel sometimes like there is a nail going through them in the front,
the hips feel sore and stiff when I walk or even sit. Any position that I hold for a length of time I feel stiffness and I have to loosen up before I am able to walk.
I had some x-rays done but have not been called to discuss the results yet. they are recommending both hips to be replaced but to be honest I am not keen on it because I have had so much surgery already, plus I cannot replace both hips and knees.

I am doing my part by trying to lose weight and I have started exercising (stretching, chi kung) so as to strengthen the muscles and ligaments.

Heartburn: It happens about 2 hours after eating and is releived by small sips of water.

I feel a lump on my throat, almost a permanent glob of mucus that does not go away when I try to swallow it, so I have to clear my throat so very often, it is hard to speak for a long length of time.

Emotionally: I feel quite good, sometimes I am impatient or maybe I feel I do not want to be disturbed when I am doing something (I guess that is a little irritability) but most of all I get easily panicked in an instant when I have to do a lot of things in a short while so I talk myself into a state of calm or I breathe deeply and slowly.
I also feel that I may be not strong enough to deal with the teenage years (next 4-5) not that my kids are bad, just that it may require more patience and consideration on my part than I am able to give.
I am a single parent and I often feel overwhelmed with the managerial role a parent needs to have. (Talking tires me out and giving instructions also tires me out sometimes.)


Thank you sincerely,
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika,

Please see my post above, I had said

'What are the symptoms which started since menopause ?'

On 1st september , are you able to see that post ?
 
sameervermani last decade
Hello,
Yes, now I see that post, I had not seen it before, and I am also seeing that there are three of the same most recent posts.
Anyway, I am going to answer your question, as I understand it.

Aroung the time of menopause, or maybe shortly pre my last menstrual cycle, I had two very strange incidents:
1)One morning I woke up and I thought I had had a stroke or something because it felt like I was seeing stars in my eyes and I was not able to see, I had to close my eyes, I was dizzy and could not walk or get up at all. I believe I stayed in bed for a few days that time and then I was taking it really easy for the next few months but I was not feeling well at all. (this was October 2002)
In December of the same year I had another incident that felt something like a heart attack:
I was not feeling well and was lying down on the couch, it was Christmas day and I had invited people over for dinner. I left them to eat because I was not well.
As I was lying down on the couch, I felt my heart rate going really fast and I felt as if I was leaving my body because I was hearing the voices of the people in the next room as if they were very far away. I remember thinking that I was not dying because I have little children and I am going to take care of them.
I sort of came back to consciousness and stayed there, I got up later to join the crowd in the kitchen, but I was very pale and weak.

After that day I was not able to do much of anything, I was too weak to even hold a glass of water in my hands. I actually lived on the couch for the next few months until March of the next year I had not been able to drive, cook , work, nothing. I have older children and the one who was still living with us took care pretty much of everything at the time.

My symptoms were: Extreme physical weakness and also extreme emotional sensitivity. AS soon as everyone would leave for school in the morning, I would cry for hours, feeling very alone (as I was in reality) because my circumstances are quite unique in the sense that I have raised my children singlehandedly, with all that resposibility, by myself. All I kept thinking was, please dear God let me live so I can raise my children to an older age.

Other symptoms: I would feel my pulse all over my body. Sometimes I would have very high blood pressure, I had even gone to the emergency a couple of times with what I thought were heart symptoms. The second time in emergency I even took a bottle of arnica 1m and took a dose right there in emergency, nobody saw me but I had to help myself, and, you know, I started feeling relief right away. The relief was in the heart centre because I felt my pulse quieted down after that.

I have had two EKGs and both times they told me there was nothing wrong, but I have this fear inside of me that my heart is weak. And when I feel panicky, I feel a certain trembling, very subtle, inside my heart centre, so faint, but it makes me feel weak.(This symptom I still feel sometimes even now.)

So ever since that time, I have not been the same. Or I perhaps had an adrenal breakdown or something and had left me extremely sensitive to stress. I try to not make a big deal of things because I fall apart more easily than before my menopause symptoms had occured.
The years that followed I slowly got better and stronger but I have changed and I also have had more of an awareness of myself, like setting clear boundaries, how I have let people around me take me for granted, etc,

I am trying to get healthy surely.
thank you
 
Marika last decade
1./) Can we say that you are overburdened with domestic responsibilities which overwhelms you to the point of anger and irritability?
2./) Can we say that there is antagonism and anger with the self ?
3./) Do you feel better after physical exercise or dancing ?
4./) Can we say most of the 'current' problems started with menopause ?
 
sameervermani last decade
1) we can say that my domestic responsibilities seem boring for me to do. I prefer to do my studying which i do daily and the domestic jobs I do quickly to get them out of the way.
2)yes, maybe there is some antagonism within the self, like I may not be exactly where I want to be right now, but I would not be away from my children for anything
3)Yes, I have started exercising lately and it feels great. It is good for me to be grounded in my body, as a person with physical disabilities I do not connect to the feeling of running, or walking, playing tennis, etc.
4)yes, the current problems did start with menopause for sure
5) and we can say that you are a very good/sharp
homeopath only now that you phrased my symptoms like this do I think of sepia.
thank you
 
Marika last decade
'5) and we can say that you are a very good/sharp
homeopath only now that you phrased my symptoms like this do I think of sepia. '

^^ Thank you and I can say that your intuition about Sepia is correct which in turn indicates Sepia further :)

Please take 3 doses of 30c potency of Sepia , and you know the dosing procedure already.

Report in 10 days.
 
sameervermani last decade
Hello Dr. Sameer,
I am reporting back to say that I really liked the effect Sepia 30C had on me. Almost immediately, (within a couple of hours) after taking it I felt a certain ‘relief’, a kind of relaxed sensation wash my whole being.

Progressively I noticed my patience returning and I have more inner peace. I accomplish my tasks with more calm and steadfastness- I think it would take Sepia 300M (is there such a potency?) to rekindle my passion for being in the kitchen most of the day as I was in the past, but I see now that having to do housework does not irritate me as much.
Let’s say I do not attach too much negative emotion to having to do my chores at home.
I am more patient with the demands of the day, my children and the work environment.

Physically:
I had a symptom before I took this remedy: the muscles on the upper shoulders and the nape of the neck would get really sore and burning almost every day. Now this has subsided by 80%. It is very good for me because I would have to stop and try to either massage or somehow stretch to get rid of it.

I still have the stiffness on the knee and hip joints. If I am sitting for even 15 minutes and try to get up, I have to do it slowly until am able to fully walk, and the same if I am standing and try to sit down.

I still have indigestion (heartburn).

I also have this other symptom that I may not have mentioned. I have a spot on my face –on the end of the left eyebrow – it is a patch of itchy skin. It started as a dot, which would itch me, and I would occasionally scratch it lightly, now I notice it has gotten a little larger and the colour of is light beige, not red. I have not gone to the doctor for it because I would not follow their instructions anyway.

I also have age spots on the back of my hands and I think I may be too young for those. Both my parents had age spots after age 70 or so.

I still exercise daily.


I should mention that I noticed that on the 5th day of taking the remedy I had quite a strong pain in the kidneys. (I have had kidney stones twice before, once age 14 and again age 27)

Maybe this was an aggravation, I am ok with it.

I wanted to ask you, what miasm(s) so you see in my case, I am interested in learning the disease process.

Thank you so much for everything
Sincerely
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika,

This was a very good response, please keep waiting, and update me in 1 week from now.

I see psora plus some syphilis. Maybe there is pseudo-psora which can portray as syphilis+psora, it is little hard to say.
 
sameervermani last decade
Thank you.

Re: Psora, I hear from my mother when I was very young (under 2 years old) I would ask anyone to scratch my back, they wouldn't so as not to irritate it, and I would ask the fire in the fireplace to scratch my back.

Re: Syphilis, I am prepared to see that out of my constitution for sure.

I will write again in one week.

Thank you
 
Marika last decade
Hello Sameer,
the last week has been full of joint stiffness for me. It takes me quite a while to change from sitting to standing for example, waiting for a while until my knees or hips become 'ready' for the next function, whichever it may be.
the knees, especially my left one, sometimes hurts even if I am sitting down.

My digestion is also showing a different sign of 'indigestion', I am experiencing gassiness immediately after eating, as if my stomach is full of air. this lasts only a little while , until the gas moves to the lower section of my intestines.

I mentioned an itchy spot that I have on the left part of my forehead, it is darker in colour than the rest of my face, and it is has been very itchy, but I touch it only slightly just enought to quiet the itch temporarily. I may be getting another of the same skin patch on the exact spot on the other side of my face.

Emotionally I am still quite calm inside re: my housework, I do it but not exactly with great fervor, but definitely not with anger or feeling like the maid of the house.
I think I would have liked it if I was a bit more industrious with the chores, instead I just observe what I need to do without it bothering me.
Another person might go crazy with a messy room, I find that I have way too much tolerance with it. I would not mind if I was more organized in the house.

I find that I devote my spare time to my studies instead of cleaning and picking up.( I still do the minimum required though)

I do feel sometimes that I lack self confidence, especially when I am talking to someone and I have eye contact with them. I feel panic and I have a hard time finding my words if I am explaining something, so I look away quite a bit.

A couple of nights ago I had a very vivid dream of my parents looking at me. In the dream I felt the heavy feelings that I feel in my daily consciousness: that I am far away from them at a time when they need me the most and I cannot help them.

I have a guilt about that, I feel trapped in a way because I am a single parent with young children that I cannot leave for 6 months to go overseas to look after my parents.
the above has been a heavy load for me- it feels like an unsolvable situation and it affects me.

Part of this is a feeling that I have let them down by not fullfilling their own expectations of me. And my mother does not spare any words in letting me know about that.
I am trying to be optimistic and trusting in life that all is well and my parents will be taken care of, but I would have liked to be financially well enough to see them every year, but it is not like that.

The dream the other night showed me again how deep is this feeling of helplessness re: my being able to help my parents in their old age.

I also am thinking a lot about the great service that you give to everyone and I don't know how to thank you enough.
I feel weird talking about me all the time.
I want to tell you that I acknowledge all the hours you put in for your patients and we are all very gratefull for this. May you and your family be blessed with every good thing.
Sincerely
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika,

Please procure 200c of Sepia. The maladies are moving from mental levels to physical levels which is always a good sign.

Update me when you have 200c with you.
 
sameervermani last decade
thank you very much, I will get Sepia 200c and will let you know.
 
Marika last decade
Hello,

I now have Sepia 200c.

The joint stiffness is still there and strong.
I am still exercising almost every day.

Yesterday and the day before I have had a return of the familiar old feelings of: 'My mother does not respect me', but I do not seem to have the anger that used to come with the whole scene, I do feel, however that my point of view is yet to be expressed. It feels as if I am stronger to do that, we'll see if I will ever get the chance and how I will be able to carry myself.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
 
Marika last decade
Hello,

Now that I have the Sepia 200c should I take it?
Thank you
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika,

Overall, are you doing better mentally than before the Sepia ? Are you able to be more productive ?
 
sameervermani last decade
Hello,
Yes I am doing better mentally and I have been more productive, especially in the housework sector.
In the process, I also observed that when I do a lot, my hands get kind of shaky at the end, from tiredness, but it seems as if this symptom comes from the nervous system because I also feel an averall kind-of trembling throughout my body, but it is very subtle- as if, had I kept going another hour, my hand muscles would give out altogether, so I stop.
In trying to rationalize it, I say to myself 'I am a little older now so I must look after myself by not doing as much', I am used to going all day long and in the last few years I have noticed this difference in my endurance.

Emotionally as I mentioned before I am doing better, I do what I do without the mental commentary such as 'I am so sick of doing the same and the same every single day'.
that is good, of course, for me and my children as well.
I did have in my mind, however, a brief return of my old stuff about feeling the need to 'prove my worth' to my mother, but with way less intensity and without it draining me so much.

Overall I feel better, yes, certainly.

thank you sincerely
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika, Wait for 4-5 more days, then take the 200c dose.

Dissolve 2 pellets in 250 ml spring water, take a teaspoon ONCE.

Report in 2 weeks.
 
sameervermani last decade
I will do that, thank you
 
Marika last decade
Hello Sameer,
I am writing sooner than 2 weeks afer taking my remedy because I am experiencing some uncomfortable symptoms.
I will tell you how the whole thing went:

Soon (within minutes) of taking my remedy I felt my hands getting stronger. At the time I took it I happened to be doing the dishes while the remedy was disolving in water. The activity of the dishes is a good indicator because the movement is familiar and I know how strong my hands are. Sometimes I feel like my hands cannot hold a dish or a glass, and I can gage the strength that way. So when I took the 200C potency while washing, I noticed almost right away that my hands were stronger.

Over the next few days I started feeling the tightness in the muscles on the back again, and it progresses to the point where they feel cramped.
This sensation is strongest on the top of my shoulders, as if I am carrying a heavy weight and I am going to collapls under it, and at the base of the neck.

Also, the point directly behind the heart, in the middle of my back is very sore, and hurting.
This follows with thoughts like Oh my God, is there something wrong with my heart and should I be going to the hospital to get this checked out?
(I have gone before under similar circumstances and 6 hours later in the emergency they told me there is nothing wrong)

This fear that there might be something wrong with my heart further exacerbates the problem and puts me into more anxiety, thus my panick attacks.

Yesterday, I drove the kids to sports, and took some time to relax, in the car, taking myself through the relaxation response method, so I can really go in to this feeling of panick and get to the root. I was successful in the sense that I felt some relief almost right away, but my throat still feels like there is a plug in it.

I feel like there is unexpressed emotions, tears and the like, but again, who does not have unexpressed emotions?

I even tell myself this is my ego acting up and soul is
always joyful anyway, or I am probably experiencing the effect of a negative transit.

I feel I have to be self sufficient because I do not have the back up of another adult in the house to pick up the responsibilities. But the thought of this reality puts me in a situation where I may feel desperate and thinking 'I have to be strong and healthy because I need to take care of my children.'

When I do not feel well I start to feel desperate.

Physical symptoms:
back muscles tight and burning
throat plugged, always need to clear it
joints still hurting
still getting indigestion

Thank you for reading these notes before the time of two weeks, I don't know if to have waited, maybe this will pass, it is hard however to be functional when not feeling well.

Sincerely
 
Marika last decade
Hello, I am adding to the previous post.

On October the 5th, 5 days after taking the remedy, I felt as if I sank into a deep depression, it lasted about 1 1/2 days. I was trying to feel joy about something and found it hard to smile. The next day the physical symptoms were the severe back tightness.

Today is October the 8th and things are a little better emotionally, the physical symptoms still here.
 
Marika last decade
Hi Marika,

I feel we should wait for 1 more week, as sometimes, when the body is in flux, we should just let it do what it wants to do.

Update me next Friday.
 
sameervermani last decade

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